Best Of
Re: Apprenticeships and other for profit training academies
Kelly,
Sorry this response is so late, but hopefully this helps. To get scholarship payments out for students who were attending for-profit training facilities, we partnered with a local non-profit that works with individuals in the career training space. In my case in Michigan, it was MichiganWorks and a local chapter near my community foundation. The community foundation handles the application, selection of scholarship recipients, and initial payment. I reach out to my contact when I have student that I've flagged and we send the payment to MichiganWorks and they work directly with the student since they have more flexibility in this space.
We have had a lot of success with this so that we can support the student who is attending linemen school at a university and linemen school at a for-profit company. We've also been able to use this partnership to help students in their next career training move - for example, maybe they needs tools or equipment. MichiganWorks has been able to facilitate that process on our behalf. Apprenticeships has been trickier, I've really only had luck in the tools/equipment space in these cases.
I hope this helps! Feel free to reach out if you have questions.
-Megan
SmartSimple Cloud June 2025 Upgrade
To learn more about the June Upgrade release, please watch this recording of our recent webinar. You can also find information here in the SmartSimple Wiki!
Please share any questions here in Compass to your SmartSimple community.
Re: Regional Trainings 2025
Hello @JessicaDirks, we plan to open registration for the Milwaukee Regional Training next week and registration for Nashville will open in September. I hope that helps. We'd love to see you at either one of these.
